Alma Cardenas

About Alma Cardenas

Cloud and AI technology professional helping organizations reap the value of digital innovation to achieve enterprise sustainability goals and adopt nature-positive business models. Functions as a business-technology liaison and catalyst of change and brings depth and breadth experience in strategic planning, sustainability business management, product management, solution architecture and digital transformation.Proven track record of synthesizing complex organizational transformation providing clear sight to achieving business outcomes while building trust-worthy relationships in ambiguous complex cross-functional settings. Experienced in leading the scoping, development and deployment of data and Machine Learning based environmental and societal impact solutions that enable data-informed decision-making. I am passionate about leveraging technological disruptions like AI and blockchain, to solve our most critical environmental challenges. These technologies are necessary to address and mitigate climate change and help avoid the biodiversity collapse by enabling data-informed decision-making solutions in all areas of the business.

Experience

1. Member Board of Directors

   Symbrosia

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Joined Symbrosia\'s Board of Directors. Symbrosia is a CleanTech startup reducing livestock methane emissions with seaweed.

Education

• University of Cambridge

  Certificate, Business Sustainability Management

  2019 — 2019

• Pace University

  Certificate, Unix, C, C++

  1994 — 1995

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering

  1981 — 1986

• Stony Brook University

  Certificate, Project Management

  2010 — 2010

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Software Development
• Saas
• Sdlc
• Iso 9000
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Strategic Planning
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Professional Services
• Customer Focus
• Spanish
• Customer Oriented
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Business Operations Management
• Application Development
• Enterprise Software
• Offshore
• Quality Assurance
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Process Improvement
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Integration
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Speech Recognition
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Product Development
• Project Delivery
• Cmmi
• Vendor Management
• Lean Sigma
• Cloud Transformation
• Six Sigma